Video: The Next Big Apple?

This week in the magazine, John Seabrook writes about the process of building a better apple, focussing on the creation of a new variety “trying to take its place as the next hot apple” called SweeTango. He goes to Minnesota, where the apple was bred, and finds that the SweeTango is “a piece of intellectual property…. SweeTango has more in common with the apple on my laptop than the apple I used to carry to school in my lunchbox.” Here he shares footage from his trip, discusses the process of breeding and developing an apple, and delights in the renaissance of apple varieties in supermarkets and greenmarkets.

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